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Memory Prices Surge, Trade Truce Extension, Year of the Horse Gallops In

Subscribers: The Daily Pulse will not be published from February 16 to 19 as China celebrates Lunar New Year. We will resume publication on Friday, February 20. Kung hei fat choi! A global shortage of memory chips that has seen prices for makers of consumer devices rise by more than 600 per cent in a year is likely to be prolonged, China’s Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest personal computer producer, warned this week. The shortage, driven by dem…

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Lenovo faces the dilemma of absorbing costs or transferring them to the final consumer at higher prices on their computers

[Digital Daily Reporter Ian Na] Companies are comprehensively reexamining their data storage strategies. The surge in memory semiconductor prices is bringing renewed attention to the previously neglected "data tiering" strategy. In particular, Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape libraries, inherently secure against ransomware attacks, are gaining traction as a means of cold data storage. This year, the surge in storage prices, including solid-state driv…

News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Memory crisis is not a fleeting problem or a punctual increase in prices. From Lenovo’s dome they say it without twists. The imbalance between supply and demand for DRAM chips will continue to hit hard in the PC market, at least until the end of the year. In a context where many expected some stabilization for the second semester, CEO Yang Yuanqing’s message cool…

The memory crisis is no longer a warning, it is a reality that begins to hit the entire technological industry and without looking. While the big manufacturers talk about 40% to 50% increases in storage and memory in just a quarter, new reports confirm that on certain devices the impact is even more extreme: some chips used in routers and set-top boxes have become expensive up to 7 times, while on PC another rise of +50% is already being talked …

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South China Morning Post broke the news in Hong Kong on Friday, February 13, 2026.
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